Even before taking office, Trump cited the presidential jet as a telling example of government waste, the kind that he was uniquely capable of dealing with as a world-class negotiator. In December of...

Mick Mulvaney, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, may have just put out a budget proposal that never reaches balance and that projects more than $7 trillion in deficits over...

As a candidate, President Trump said he would not cut Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security. But his 2019 budget proposal seeks to reduce spending on all three programs and other parts of the social...

The Trump budget request raises military spending significantly to $686 billion in 2019, with $617 billion for the base budget and $69 billion for the overseas war-fighting account. (With $30 billion...

Senate Democrats are budging in their budget talks. Lawmakers on the left have insisted for months that enacting protections for immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children...

It may be a drop in the bucket in terms of overall government spending, but outfitting Air Force One with new refrigerators will cost taxpayers $24 million. Before you go looking for a $600 hammer to...